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[The Albertype Co. Postcard Factory at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. - exterior] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[The Albertype Co. Postcard Factory at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. - exterior], [1945] — historic photograph
[The Albertype Co. Postcard Factory at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. - exterior], [1945]. Historic photograph from the Brooklyn collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[The Albertype Co. Postcard Factory at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. - exterior] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[The Albertype Co. Postcard Factory at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. - exterior]

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Few of the Brooklyn pictures on this board show a working building, and this one shows the Albertype Co. plant at 250 Adams Street in 1945. The firm was known for printing picture postcards, a mass medium that was still going strong in the mid-twentieth century, when American tourists and servicemen sent cards from nearly every town they passed through. The photograph records the factory's street face as a place of industrial work in a borough that was then full of printing shops and small manufacturers.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAlbertype Co.--Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Factories--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Printing industry--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161583

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